Crime pays: Getting away with terror at British taxpayers’ expense

The Daily Mail refers to Abu Qatada, the “preacher”, as Al-Qaeda’s “ambassador to Europe.” As if al-Qaeda was a diplomatic service. You’re looking at Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe.

Of course he’s smiling. Look at what he’s getting:
1. He can’t be extradited to Jordan “because his human rights would have been breached.”
2. He lives in a $1.6 million house.
3. He receives $100,000 in (British) government benefits.
4. He’s under house arrest but meanders freely.
5. Supposedly he’s on disability receiving $300/week for a back injury but can carry a knapsack in public. He’s not worried that anyone would jail him for fraud.
6. His “45-year-old wife is said to be entitled to child benefits, income support, housing and council tax credits which exceed £800 each week.” (that would be approx. $1600.) Plus, “The family is also said to pick up around £210 in income support.”
7. AND he gets a tax break: “the couple is exempt from paying the £2,283 yearly council tax bill on their home.”

This photograph of the smiling al-Qaeda operative telescopes to the rest of the world the message that the UK officially has signed a suicide pact.